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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “older”
Where the money went
Greater Wisconsin Agency On AgingMadison, WICharity · may take applications
404 matching grants · $102.4M · through 2024Largest: $2.2M to WAUKESHA COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADRC — older americans act - federal and state grants
Largest: $300,000 to TENUFA BAKEHILA — to provide intensive home repairs and social advocacy for israeli holocaust survivors and older adults who live in severely dilapidated homes; to repair 300 homes of older adults p…
Largest: $245,000 to COLORADO LATINO LEADERSHIP ADVOCACY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION — conducting innovative community-based participatory research among older latino coloradan adults
Largest: $40,238 to SERVING OLDER ADULTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — a third-year grant in support of the tech connect for older adults program, which provides technology devices and training to low-income older adults, particularly those who are ma…
Scan Health PlanLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
76 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — grant to support outreach and engagement with older adults (age 55+) done by long beach residents empowered in the city of long beach. primary targets through funding will be older…
Largest: $136,500 to SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC — provide funding to address bias and stigma associated with mental illness of older adults
Largest: $180,000 to FIRST FOCUS — support research and education focused on older youth, young adult and family economics, tax, budget, child welfare, education and mental health
Ageguide Northeastern IllinoisLombard, ILCharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $60.0M · through 2023Largest: $7.7M to DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL — meals for older adults
The Scan FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
31 matching grants · $4.8M · through 2024Largest: $732,187 to PUBLIC POLICY LAB — this project is an initiative to accelerate equitable policy change and health-systems improvement for and with older americans. we'll form a pool of older adults for ongoing human…
Archstone FoundationNewport Beach, CA
50 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2024Largest: $22,738 to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — to support the expansion of the older adult services & intervention system (oasis) program to ensure that older people receive social services and preventative care necessary to ma…
Keiro ServicesLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
49 matching grants · $483,494 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to LITTLE TOKYO NUTRITION SERVICES — to support ltns's core operations to support the community's older adults
Senior Resources of West MichiganMuskegon, MICharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $9.2M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to Agewell Services — care serv for older adults
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →